[Easton Blue]

=D =D!

Seriously.. this is going to be a big release once it's finished!

[Kuddy]

First post syndrome averted~!

[Risu2112]

Sorry bout lack of updates, I am moving again on May 8th, signing a lease has occupied most of my time I'll get a lot done this weekend

Jayalin: thanks, always good to know there is an intrest in this game ^_^
GentryXaties: SF1 and SF2 were very similar games, SF2 did have a few additional features and a larger universe, but the change was not very drastic.
Steel_Dragoon2000: Yeah Goth sucks.
Easton blue: Yes it will be.
Kurushimi: Thx man.

[GetDizzy]

[ME]Drools[/ME]

[Kuddy]

I never said that.

[Risu2112]

Kurushimi, on Jan 30 2003, 12:50 PM, said:

First post syndrome averted~!

Kuru: thanks for that

[Kuddy]

Ack, I feel really stupid now.

[Risu2112]

Okay, so I was avoiding my list of things to do on SFMZX, and started to poke around with the Planet screen...

I always wanted to make the planets wrap-around, (once you hit the border on one side, you end up on the other). Normaly this would be an easy task, but the way this is set up, the robot is reliant on the map 3 spaces in every direction, this made a wrap around map very difficult and tiresome. None the less I tryed to do it, 400 lines of code later I had... Nothing shortly there after I decided NOT to do this and to move on to other things.

Yeah so I went back tonight and in a spark of inspiration made the planets flawlessly wrap around. This time it took all of 12 lines of code

I'm not sure why I didn't think of this before, rather than have the robot look half way across the board for the info it needed, I simply put it all in twice! prior to the change there was a 3 character buffer of c00 spaces (these returned no signal from the robot and apeard blank on the mini-map). Well, seems all I had to do was instead of c00 spaces, just copy the last 3 chars from the other side of the map! I did that all the way around, then put in a few gotoxy commands and it was set.

The best part is, as I said: 12 lines of code. Bonus was that it took no aditional board space because it replaced the old buffer.

[Risu2112]

Well it's 4am, if I'm posting this late then you know I've been doing some serious work

Huge changes to the planet screen, almost everything on it has been finalized. Wrap around planets, abundant mineral list, new graphics, completey redone pre landing menu. Fuel cost re-established. You name it, All I've left to finish up is a few GFX things and I need to replace some of my sound effects (lost the old .sam files in the HD crash)

[RoSS]

/me drools.
Damn, you made me do it again!

[Padz]

when is said demo being released?

i haven't checked the board properly for ages.

This game sounds amazing!

[Risu2112]

Oooo, more work done tonight, last 2 days have been REALLY productive.

Planet screen is DONE. (I'm gonna make a few tile sets for it still, but thats like 2 minutes of work)
I'm working my way through my list of things to fix, it's getting pretty short now



EDIT: No release date for demo yet. I hope to realisticly have it out in a month or two.

This post has been edited by KenOhki2112: 12 February 2003 - 10:42 AM

[Revvy]

What are you doing for musical stuff?

[Padz]

Where can i get a copy of the previous demos?

I haven't played this yet and it sounds sooooo great!

[Risu2112]

Rev: right now most of the music is comming from the GREATEST PC game ever that unfortunatly no one has ever played.

Ledgend: the "previous demos" are almost 2 years old, and pretty much demo nothing of what the game is today. They were released in thier premature buggy state in hopes of me receiving some solid feed back. The idea was, release the game in it's primitive state, get advice on that, and then work it all together.

Also I lost those demos years ago if you track some one down that has one of the old copys of SFmzx, go ahead and try it (I said do not distribute but I don't care about that any more) just remember that they are a total mess.

This post has been edited by KenOhki2112: 12 February 2003 - 08:41 PM

[Risu2112]

Another 6 solid hours of work done tonight

I've been pushing the planet engines to thier limits, trying to find out exactly HOW crazy I can go with earthquakes/hotspots for the less than friendly planets. They are now 25 times as sensitive as they were before... Thats gonna make for some interesting planets.

Also fixed a major bug I created last night where robots begain to duplicate them selfs wildly all over the board.

[Risu2112]

Hey who wants some screen shots?


Any way here's a look at how a few of the boards have changed:


The System board is looking way better than it was:

old:



new:




The planets are.. Different to say the least:

Old:



New:



Old:



New:



and this





And on a whim, heres a shot from the combat screen. Mind you it is quite difficult to take a good picture in that screen

Enjoy

And YES every thing on those boards actualy does stuff.

This post has been edited by KenOhki2112: 14 February 2003 - 08:48 AM

[Kuddy]

Looking nice. One thing, though; it still says foward... I thought you said you changed that.

[Risu2112]

Kurushimi, on Feb 13 2003, 07:20 PM, said:

Looking nice. One thing, though; it still says foward... I thought you said you changed that.

hahaha good eye...

lemme go fix that now..

At least I fixed the spelling on "Compleate"

EDIT: There Kuru, and no one will be the wiser...

This post has been edited by KenOhki2112: 14 February 2003 - 03:35 AM

[Jayalin]

Looks quite impressive, looking more complicated than I thought ^_^

Is the game universe predefined or randomly generated?

[Wervyn]

Quote

At least I fixed the spelling on "Compleate"

You did? Do you mean AFTER you took those screenshots, because you might want to check that again.
Looking really nice, if not graphically then functionally. I'm looking forward to seeing how this thing will play.

"Your opinion is wrong. Your favorite band sucks."

[Risu2112]

Wervyn, on Feb 13 2003, 09:51 PM, said:

Quote

At least I fixed the spelling on "Compleate"

You did? Do you mean AFTER you took those screenshots, because you might want to check that again.
Looking really nice, if not graphically then functionally. I'm looking forward to seeing how this thing will play.

"Your opinion is wrong. Your favorite band sucks."

No look, those are before/after screen shots. the After screen shot has it fixed, the Before screen shot has the type-o

[RoSS]

KenOhki2112, on Feb 14 2003, 03:41 AM, said:

Wervyn, on Feb 13 2003, 09:51 PM, said:

Quote

At least I fixed the spelling on "Compleate"

You did? Do you mean AFTER you took those screenshots, because you might want to check that again.
Looking really nice, if not graphically then functionally. I'm looking forward to seeing how this thing will play.

"Your opinion is wrong. Your favorite band sucks."

No look, those are before/after screen shots. the After screen shot has it fixed, the Before screen shot has the type-o

Not all the "compleate"s, on the new ones, both say "map compleate"

[Revvy]

Pretty good. I can't say I like the red in some shots, but otherwise pretty nice.

[Risu2112]

RoSS, on Feb 14 2003, 05:07 AM, said:

KenOhki2112, on Feb 14 2003, 03:41 AM, said:

Wervyn, on Feb 13 2003, 09:51 PM, said:

Quote

At least I fixed the spelling on "Compleate"

You did? Do you mean AFTER you took those screenshots, because you might want to check that again.
Looking really nice, if not graphically then functionally. I'm looking forward to seeing how this thing will play.

"Your opinion is wrong. Your favorite band sucks."

No look, those are before/after screen shots. the After screen shot has it fixed, the Before screen shot has the type-o

Not all the "compleate"s, on the new ones, both say "map compleate"

Well shit.

Okay Okay I'm fixing it.

rev: what do you mean?

[Dr Lancer-X]

Rev wants you to enter the palette editor and change every instance of the colour red to a green or grey or something. At least, that's the easiest way.

~ Lancer-X

[Revvy]

Basically, I find the red in the mini-map in the space shots hard on my eyes. It might just be the jpg though.

[Risu2112]

Well, default pallet, what can I say?

(yes the whole game uses the default pallet.. Let the criticism begin.)

[Risu2112]

Oops..

This post has been edited by KenOhki2112: 17 February 2003 - 10:21 PM

[Risu2112]

Oh yeah.... mzx, I'll get back to work later today.